It was something I said in answer to someone quetions of "can I get the vocals from a track". My answer ws based off part of a Tomrrow World thingy I saw ages ago where they were talking about having ap air of headphones that would read the sound outside the headphones, then play it back as an inverse sound wav so that:

Sound in headphones: Input + external noise. And by playing an inverse of the external noise with the sound in the headphones would reduce the external noise leaving a clearer input, which was supposed to lead to you being able to turn down the volume in your headphones and keep it sounding decent without annoying everyone else beside you.

I think part of the basic idea could go along hte lines of the peaks on the negative are accented as they should exceed the limited volumes on the main signal thus amplifying them whilst cutting some of the clipping distortion. I have no idea if this will work as I'm pissed and may just be ranting Betty Swallocks but you could lways try it and maybe piss about it and see what happens.

Oddly enough I was chattign with a few mates at the weekend and commented on the fact I'd met this guy on the BOA forums who'd done this great track, but when probed had no idea what a compreesor actually does. My mates then admitted they had no idea what a compressor actually does and I told them and they were all like "oh ah" and I started to ask them just about how much does it matter to know what happens versus how it sounds.

A topic I may very well bring up on these here forums when I sober up.